Advanced Features

The Advanced tab gives you quick access to a set of advanced tools, among them the Memcached distributed memory caching system and the Varnish Cache web accelerator, which will help you optimize your sites and apps without needing to move away from the Control Panel. Based on the hosting plan, these tools are either added by default or are available in the form of easily gettable upgrades. InnoDB and NodeJS support is available as well.

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator also popular as an HTTP accelerator. You can install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the content. Varnish Cache is very, very fast and will increase your site's loading speed. One of the major virtues of Varnish Cache is the flexibility of its domain-specific language, VCL, which allows you to choose how incoming requests should be dealt with.

Memcached

Memcached is a general-purpose memory object caching system for increasing the load speed of dynamic database-powered web sites. It is used to decrease the number of times an external data source (such as a DB or API) is read by caching data and objects in RAM. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system uses a two-tier architecture. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system is used by some of the most traffic-intensive sites on the Internet and is supported by popular web apps like Joomla and WordPress.

Node.js

Node.js is a software system for building highly scalable network apps. Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, Node.js uses an event-based, asynchronous input/output model that makes it lightweight and efficient, excellent for high-performance content-rich Internet apps. Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine, libUV, and a number of built-in libraries.

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default database engine for the MySQL open-source relational database management system. A storage engine is the main software component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, modify and delete data from a database. The latest edition of InnoDB offers substantial improvements in efficiency, dependability and functionality. InnoDB offers the standard ACID-compliant transaction attributes, as well as declarative referential integrity support. It is included as standard in most binaries distributed by MySQL AB.